Howl at the Moon
My Background
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAs we sat in the living room, I started to talk, "Well, you might as well get comfy, as this is going to take a little bit of time. I will start of by saying that Pinkie Pie was right in saying that I was not from this world. I am indeed from a world were the most intelligent species is Humans, or Homo Sapiens. Their is a few other species that are close in intelligence, but are not at the level humanity is. I am not going to go into detail, but some of the accomplishment of humanity is that we have been to our moon and back, have sent satellites that are pretty much just extremely large and powerful cameras out beyond the edge of our galaxy, and have weapons that can wipe out entire countries with only one bomb, which i don't agree with, but sometimes, their is no other way, and none of the countries use them unless they can't do anything about a war.
"On that happy note, I end that topic and move to the second one, which is the fact that I was brought here by a Queen Faust, if i'm not mistaken she said." I say this, looking at the two mares in the room. Twilight gasped when I mention the name.
"You were brought here by Queen Faust. I need to tell the Princesses about this. They might know more about this than I. Though I can say that I have heard of something like this before, I just can't remember when." she says this with a great amount of annoyance, as she is clearly aggravated at the fact she can't remember where she had acquired the information. I quickly ask her not to tell the princesses, at least until I am more settled. she reluctantly agrees, and I continue to tell the story of how I got to Equestria.
"Well, as I said, I was brought here by Queen Faust. But I will call her the Shaman, as that is how I first met her, and that is who I know. Anyways, I was wanting to get away from the house for a while, as I was helping my mom with doing foster care. Luckily, I still lived in town, as she was getting on in years. Eventually she had to quit foster care, and she went into an old folks home, or home for the elderly to be taken care of by nurses. She is currently 84, and the last time I saw her, she barely even remembered me. In my world, we have a disease known as Alzheimer's. It attacks the brain, and over time, it pretty much rots their brain away, or at least in a sense. She didn't remember me. So, my two oldest friends, Hunter and Ross, decided to help me get out of my funk, and they said to come to a convention with them. I had always wanted to go to a con. but never could, as I always was doing something when they were happening. This time I would have been free, and so I said yes. I then started to think of what I should go as to this con., and decided to go as a howler, which is a type of nature spirit from a comic I liked.
"I decided to go all out on my costume. I even went so far as to get some slight extensions done to my canines, so that I could have the fangs that howlers have. The week the convention was supposed to start, we packed our bags and took a road trip to get to where to convention was being held. Coincidentally, it happened to be a comic convention, which made my costume all the more appropriate. my friend Hunter had to go to the convention early, so that he could set up his comic booth, and me and Ross were to join him at a later time. So we did, and after that, the let me off my leash to go look around at all the different booths."
"Wait, you had a leash? Why though darling. Are the females not mostly the dominant sex in your world?" This actually came from Rarity, which surprised me when she said it. I didn't take her as someone who would say that. Luckily, I was saved from having to answer by Twilight, saying "No, Rarity, it wasn't a literal leash. And I remember reading about humans in a book a long time ago, so no, males mostly are dominant, with females being mostly subjugated."
"Actually, that book might be old. Males are more towards the back burner in terms of being the dominant sex, with women becoming the breadwinners." I say, re-uping Twilight's knowledge of humans, though curiously wondering how they learned about us. "Anyways, as I had been saying, I was walking around the convention, when I saw a booth run by a character from the comic that I was cosplaying from. The characters name is the Shaman, and that is all she is called in the comic, so I really have nothing else to say about her name. She was selling a bunch of weapons and items, and I was just awed that someone else read the comic too. I went over to the booth, and looked at some of the stuff. The cool thing is, she knew that I was from the comic too, and decided to give me a discount on four Items. So I picked four items from the table of exquisite objects, and she then told me an unreasonable price for them. Seriously, the items she was selling, one of them alone would have cost around 1,500 to 2,000 dollars, and she told me only THREE, I couldn't believe that, and she told me that it was that way cause she also had a job for me. The next thing I know I am in a place she calls the Nexus, which surprisingly looked like a subway station. she then tells me I have the four items I chose and some abilities to go with them. The first item I had was the sword that I used to fight that Manticore, the second is this." I quickly pull out the God-Eater from my hammer space, which I quickly explain how I happened to acquire, and Scootaloo tries to touch it. I jerk the blade away and yell at her "DON'T TOUCH IT! It is extremely dangerous, as it will eat anyone who touches it but me."
"What. That don't make a lick a sense. How can a sword eat a pony?" Applebloom says trying to touch it herself. I quickly jerk it away again, screaming at her. "I SAID. DON'T. TOUCH. IT. THIS IS NOT A NORMAL SWORD. When I say it will eat you, you do not want to know. I have never seen it myself, but I have heard it is not pretty. This sword, in a sense, is a living entity. It is bonded only to me by blood. DO. NOT. TOUCH. IT." At this point I am furious, and requip the sword with my R-201.
"Know, if we could KINDLY move along with this little show-and-tell, this is my carbine rifle. It is a gun, which, if I am to judge by your expressions, you have never seen one before, correct?" Twilight answers me with a nod, saying "Yes. The most powerful ranged weapon we have is a crossbow, or magic bolt, which can go only about two hundred meters." She says, still shocked by my out burst at Applebloom. I sigh and quickly say, "Look, I am sorry for the outburst. I just don't want to witness firsthand what happens if someone touches a God-Eater, which is the name of that weapon, yes. As I said, it is a living entity, and will kill whoever touches it, other than me."
"Now, knowing what your best ranged weapons are, think of a gun as a very high powered crossbow, that doesn't shoot bolts. It instead shoot little pieces of metal called bullets." I take out the magazine of the rifle and pull out one of the bullets as I say this, holding it up to show the group of ponies in front of me."This is what they look like. And I know from experience that they hurt when they hit, so don't get in front of this part, called the barrel." I then proceed for the next ten minutes to show them the other parts of the gun, and explain some safety rules to them. Twilight is impressed that humans were so technologically advanced, and asked if she could borrow the weapon to hopefully recreate it. I politely decline her, though I tell her that maybe in time I will let her have a crack at replicating the gun. She seems to accept this, so I then pull out the final item from my hammer space, the shield that gave me the powers to use said hammer space.
"And the final item, the Adamantine shield. This is from a show that the user of this shield has her own personal hammer space, which, when the Shaman told me I now had a hammer space due to that fact, I was slightly happy. Though, when she gave me a little book to go with everything, the book turned out to be an instruction manual. It told me that the hammer space isn't like other hammer spaces, where you can store literally anything that will fit into whatever pocket dimension it takes up, this hammer space only held a set limit of items, that being most of my changes of clothes, which if I get a chance I would like to put in a closet, to make some room, plus the book and the four items. The book said I could hold about fifty items in it. I might want to keep my armor in there though, that way it's easier to requip." I say, the last part I say to myself.
"You said this Shaman had a job for you. May we ask what it is?" Twilight asks. I shake my head no, saying "When the Shaman pulled of her mask, the lady told me not to tell anyone the job. Sorry, but I am not going to disobey a goddess, if what you tell me of Queen Faust is true. Though, continuing the story, after she tells me the job and reveals herself, a train looking like the Pony Express pulls into the station, and she shoves me onto it with the book, and sends me of to here. The next thing I know, I looked up and saw the train car was full of you ponies. By the way, I hope you don't mind, but I did happen to here your conversation on the train about whatever happened the other day. Sorry, I didn't mean to eaves drop, but when you got up and I came over to help, I knew your names. Well, all of them but Pinkie Pie's, but still. Again, I am sorry I eavesdropped on you girls." I can't help but feel a little guilty at having listened in on their private conversation, and was hoping that they wouldn't be mad at me. Rarity waved her hand as if brushing the thought aside, saying "At least you are honest about it. And you are sorry for having done it. I am honestly not surprised though. We where quit loud on the ride back from the Crystal Empire. It's a wonder we weren't told to lower our voices."
"Actually, it isn't. Think about it, would you go up to a group of ponies, one of which just so happens to be a princess, and tell said princess to lower her voice. Wouldn't you be worried that you might be punished if you did, not knowing me personally like you do." Twilight counters. As she said this, Rarity blanches at the thought, and quickly says that Twilight has a point. I look out the window, and notice that it is night time. I then turn back to the room and see that the three girls have already curled up together and gone to sleep. I clear my throat to get the two mares attention, and point to the girls when they both turn to me. After seeing where I am pointing, they look out side then to the clock that rarity has over her mantle, seeing that it was coming up about ten at night. We decide to conclude for the night, and Twilight bids us good night, walking over to the door. As she opens it up, we jump in surprise, seeing Rainbow Dash and Applejack standing outside.
"Sorry ya'll. We were just gettin worried about the girls is all, and heard from some ponies that they had come hear. Are they?" Applejack asks, trying to look past Twilight into the Boutique. Twilight smiles and steps aside, letting the two girls come in to pick up their sisters.
"Cameron, do you have a place to sleep tonight darling." Rarity questions, to which I shake my head and say that I don't. "Well, if you don't mind waiting a moment, I can fix up the spare room for you to sleep in, until we can get you a proper place of your own."
"Thank you Rarity. You are to kind." I say, bowing just slightly. She gives me a small laugh at that, saying "Well, I am the Element of Generosity. I can't give that generous spirit up now can I?" She laughs lightly as I pick up her little sister to carry her to her bed. Rarity guides me to the room, where I put Sweetie Belle on her bed before exiting. Rarity then show me to where I will be sleeping, opening the door on a small room with a bed and nightstand, a lamp, and bookshelf on the right side of the room from the door. She says that I can sleep here as long as she likes, and I thank her. She then leaves me alone, and I get ready for bed, getting under the covers and going to sleep for the night.
Author's Note
Sorry about the wait, I have been helping my mom do foster care. I have slightly fudged the details here, as we are still doing foster care, and my mom is not that old or in a old folks home. 5 kids is hard to take care of.
Have a Jivin day!
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